Scholarships

Scholarships are UAHuntsville's highest priority need. This issue is critically important because:

- UAHuntsville is experiencing increased freshman enrollment
- 60 percent of our 7,700 students require financial aid
- Our present average award is about $1,000, less than one-third the cost of tuition

UAHuntsville relies on scholarships to ensure that outstanding students have access to a college education. UAHuntsville has far fewer scholarships to offer than most of our peer institutions.

We have many more qualified scholarship applicants than scholarships we can award. To attract the best and brightest of tomorrow's leaders, we need additional scholarships.

Opportunities for providing scholarships are:

• Contributing to existing scholarships



• Current Use Scholarships
  Giving to the university's general scholarship pool, which awards scholarships annually



• Endowed Scholarships
  Endowing a scholarship in honor or in memory of an individual, a family, or an organization.


• The minimum amount to endow a scholarship in perpetuity is $25,000. This will provide a minimum of a $1000 scholarship annually since it is the university's policy to award 5 percent of the value of each fund for scholarships.


• Endowed funds are invested in the University of Alabama System Pooled Endowment Fund. This approach has enabled the endowed funds and the scholarship awards to increase at a rate much faster than inflation.


• As donors who established an endowed scholarship, you and your family or organization will receive an annual report from UAHuntsville with information about the scholarship recipient(s) and the financial status of the fund, including earnings and distributions. You also will be invited to a scholarship event where scholarship recipients and donors have an opportunity to meet. You should receive a thank you note annually from each student who receives the scholarship that you endow. Most importantly, you will help prepare new generations of students for success.